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The Balrog Card-List (104 Cards) Middle-earth: The Balrog Card-list (104 cards) The Balrog expansion is sold as two boxes, each containing one deck; buy them both and you have a complete set, a format different from all other expansions. Deck 1 (red box) is called The Shadow-deeps; deck 2 (green box) is called Balrog’s Host. Each box contains over half the expansion’s cards. Grey bordered reprints of cards from earlier expansions are included to allow you to play the decks right out of the box. S#: appears # times in The Shadow-deeps; B#: appears # times in Balrog’s Host. Hero Character Great Shadow S2 Grond B1 Strider B1 Heart of Dark Fire B1 Minion Characters Invade Their Domain B1 Azog S1 Long Grievous Siege B1 Bolg B1 Lord and Usurper B1 Bûthrakaur S1 Maker’s Map S1 Crook-legged Orc S1+B1 Memories of Old Torture S1 Hill-troll S1+B1 Mine or No One’s B1 Mountain-maggot S2+B1 No Better Use S1 The Balrog S3+B3 Obey Him or Die B1 Umagaur B1 Orders from the Great Demon S1+B1 Hero Resources Out He Sprang S1+B2 People Diminished B1 Crept Along Carefully B1 Prone to Violence B1 Elven Rope B1 Roam the Waste B1 Longbottom Leaf S1 Roots of the Earth S1+B1 Rumours of Rings S1 Sauron B1 Show Things Unbidden B1 Scourge of Fire B1 To Fealty Sworn B1 Strangling Coils B2 Tempest of Fire S1 Terror Heralds Doom S1 Darkness Made by Malice S1 Vanguard of Might S1 Desire All for Thy Belly S1 Whispers of Rings B1 Diminish and Depart B1 Fled into Darkness B1 (Balrog specific) Minion Faction Glance of Arien S1 A Few Recruits B1 Imprisoned and Mocked B1 Minion Allies Press Gang B1 Cave Troll S1 The Reek S1 Evil Things Lingering S1 The Sun Shone Fiercely S1 Great Troll S1 Unabated in Malice S1 Nasty Slimy Thing B1 Minion Sites (Balrog specific) Ancient Deep-hold B1 Barad-dûr S1 Carn Dûm S1 Cirith Gorgor S1 Cirith Ungol S1 Dol Guldur S1 Minas Morgul S1 Moria S1+B1 Remains of Thangorodrim S1 Minion Items (Balrog specific) The Drowning-deeps S1 Stabbing Tongue of Fire B1 The Gem-deeps B1 Whip of Many Tongues B1 The Iron-deeps S1 The Pûkel-deeps B1 Minion Resource Events The Rusted-deeps B1 A More Evil Hour B1 The Sulfur-deeps S1 Ancient Secrets S2+B1 The Under-courts S1 Angband Revisited S2+B2 The Under-galleries S1 Breach the Hold S1+B1 The Under-gates S1+B1 Caverns Unchoked S1+B1 The Under-grottos S1+B1 Challenge the Power B1 Hazard Creatures The Under-leas S1+B1 Cloaked by Darkness S1 Beorning Skin-changers S1 The Under-vaults S1+B1 Crowned with Storm B1 Carrion Feeders S1 The Wind-deeps B1 Darkness Wielded S1 Monstrosity of Diverse Shape S1 Descent through Fire S1 Olog Warlords B1 Eddy in Fate’s Tide B1 Shelob’s Brood S2 Flame of Udûn S1+B1 Spawn of Ungoliant S1 Council of the Isles of the Dead that Live Foe Dismayed S1+B2 Ungoliant’s Foul Issue S1 The Netherlands Gangways over the Fire S1+B1 Ungoliant’s Progeny S1 Going Ever Under Dark S1 Hazard Events www.go.to/dutch_council Great Army of the North B1 * [email protected] Black Vapour S1 Great Fissure S2+B1 .
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